7. Luke 1:1-4

Luke gives his purposes for writing, and his purposes give credibility.

Don’t impose modern standard of history writing

8. Hard Sayings of Jesus

Luke 14:26 (Matthew 10:37)

Mark 13:32

Conclusion

9. What doesn’t appear in the gospels that you would expect?

“Missing Sayings”

Circumcision

Speaking in Tongues

Errors of the blog world: why only one non-Christian historian wrote about Jesus?